Plumtree
Some pictures of trains at Plumtree station over the years
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Service days
This early poor quality picture shows a train approaching from Nottingham Unknown |
A Nottingham based Stanier Black 5 No: 44861 on an Up train prepares to leave Plumtree station. T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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Unidentified
Black Five with an Up service passes Plumtree station on Monday 5th
November 1956 H B Priestley |
A local Melton to Nottingham, departs Plumtree in the 1950's
T G Hepburn - Rail Archive Stephenson |
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A Stanier Black 5 No:44664 on a special M594 departs for the south in the early 1960's Note the train spotters! The photo appears to have been taken from the bottom the the signalbox steps Noel Ingram |
Plumtree station looking south as a Nottingham service heads
north in 1966 Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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A southbound express pictured from Bradmore Lane Plumtree in 1966 Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
Further south this picture from the lineside shows the station
buildings in the right background Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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Two
class 25's head south through Plumtree on 29th June 1966, photographed
from the door of the signalbox. Note the trolleybuses in the station
grounds - look here
for some pictures of the embryo museum now based at Sandtoft near
Doncaster Noel Ingram |
Looking north in the yard at Plumtree on a misty day in 1966 sees
another southbound express approaching. The Goods shed and Provender store can
be made out in the murk Courtney Haydon Collection R.C.T.S. |
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4472 'Flying Scotsman on a railtour from Ipswich to
Chesterfield pictured to the north of the station in August 1968 David Ford Collection |
Test track